Re: 3g Modem pin entry in the clear

From: Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>

To: networkmanager-list gnome org

Cc: Achim Weber <dotzball gmx net>

Subject: Re: 3g Modem pin entry in the clear

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:16:55 +0200

On Monday 06 of September 2010 13:53:36 Achim Weber wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:59, Achim wrote:
> > On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:03:16 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> > We do want a "Show password" checkbox though just in case you need to
> >> > check that you PIN is right before you hit OK :) Which I've added and
> >> > pushed to 0.8.x and master. Thanks for the poke to get this done.
> >> >
> >> > Dan
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > I'm a user of Debian Squeeze where this popup still shows the cleartext
> > (no checkbox for PW etc.). Can you please name or post a link to the
> > commit where the patch can be found? So this patch can be included in
> > the Debian NM :-)
> >
> > I did browse the commit messages in [1] but wasn't able to find "pin" or
> > "clear" in the commit messages.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Achim
> >
> > [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/log/
>
> Can someone help with a link to the patch/commit, please?
>
> Thanks
> Achim
>
Actually, you need to look in nm-applet's code, as the change is in the GUI
(nm-applet). And it resides at gnome.org.
Here is the commit:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-
applet/commit/?id=cda2ffae25954d28fbce803b05cf65cfb2a6cd46
Jirka